Found a few US quarters, a couple of Canadian coins and one or two other miscellaneous in the Kroger machine last time. Left it on the counter for the next checker.
The ordinary three cruddy zincolns and this: 87 year old German pfennig minted in Berlin. Curiously the bundle of wheat was a design considered for the 2010 Lincoln cent reverse but was rejected because of the similarity to this design.
I hate you. Why can't I find kewl stuff like that? Or anything at all? My local CoinStar machine is the Death Valley of CoinStar machines, it would seem. *sigh*
A grand total of 6 cents spread over three different machines today. Not as kewl as yesterday's find.
That is three times what I have found... EVER, for all time. I'm up to a lifetime total of two cruddy Zincolns. Well, one was so corroded, cratered and nasty (looked like moldy Swiss cheese with corrosion holes going all the way through it) that really my cumulative CoinStar lifetime total is more like 1.8 cents. Of course I suppose I don't deserve any CoinStar luck, considering my past luck in cherrypicking bulk Wheat cent lots ...
Sweet find scottishmoney! Is that similar to cent size? Someone may have mistaken it for an ordinary LMC. And sweet find to you as well LordM, great detail for a 14D!
It is a couple of mm smaller than the cent, I saw the 1 on the reverse and thought at first it was a token until I turned it over and saw the shaft of wheat. @lordmarcovan I visit a lot of stores as a result of my job - believe me only about 1 out of 10 times has even a measly cent in the slot. Sometimes I go a week or more with nothing then wham bam I find loads of stuff in several machines - sort of like they come out of the woodwork.
Those Weimar German reichspfennigs were, as I recall, slightly smaller than a US cent, but not by too much. I have found them with clipped planchets. The German mint was especially prone to errors during the Weimar era. I suppose they had bigger fish to fry than quality control. It probably did get mistaken for a cent, despite the slightly smaller size. I found a 1948 Netherlands cent while coin roll hunting, once. Those are significantly smaller than a US cent, but it still crept into US circulation somehow.
The new Bahamas cents are about the size of the pfennig coin - and I am finding those at a rate of a couple a month.
Coinstar finds have been slow this week, for whatever reason things were hopping in May but have slowed down a bit this month. I am slightly paranoid maybe the employees noticed me checking and started doing it themselves. I did get an unusual find yesterday though, an 1824 Mexican 1/8 real, unfortunately it's a copy though
You must live in a high class area with a lot of money or something lol. Or you don't check enough. I found a coin from Taiwan yesterday!! Find so much. Lol
OK, so yeah, the islands here are kinda upscale. (I work on St. Simons Island, GA for an upscale resort). But I live on the mainland, way out in the sticks. The CoinStar machine is in the Winn-Dixie store. 'Round those parts, and out where I live, it's more like this: